Martin Cooper and the History of Cell Phone Martin Cooper and the History of Cell Phone Martin Cooper and the History of Cell Phone Cavan Images/ Stone/ Getty Images By Newstream/Arraycomm Updated October 31, 2016. April 3, 2003 marked the 30th anniversary of the first public telephone call placed on a portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper, chairman, CEO and co-founder of ArrayComm Inc, placed that call on April 3, 1973 while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the long-anticipated incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications that was distinct from cellular car phones. That first call, placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place. "People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973," Cooper said.

"As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. continue reading below our video Should I Roll Over my 401K to an IRA? Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones , let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life," he added. Following the April 3, 1973 public demonstration of a "brick"-like 30-ounce phone, Cooper started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market. Motorola introduced the 16-ounce "DynaTAC" phone into commercial service in 1983. At the time, each phone cost the consumer $3,500. It took an additional seven years before there were a million subscribers in the United States. Today, there are more cellular subscribers than wireline phone subscribers in the world. And thankfully, mobile phones are much lighter and portable.

Martin Cooper Today Martin Cooper's role in conceiving and developing the first portable cellular phone directly impacted his choice to start and lead ArrayComm , a wireless technology and systems company founded in 1992. ArrayComm's core adaptive antenna technology increases the capacity and coverage of any cellular system and significantly lowers costs while making cellular calls more reliable. The technology addresses what Cooper calls "the unfulfilled promise" of cellular, which should be, but still isn't as reliable or affordable as wired telephone services. ArrayComm has also used its adaptive antenna technology to make the Internet more "personal" by creating the i-BURST Personal Broadband System, which delivers high-speed, mobile Internet access that consumers can afford. "It's very exciting to be part of a movement toward making broadband available to people with the same freedom to be anywhere that they have for voice communications today," Cooper said. "People rely heavily on the Internet for their work, entertainment and communication, but they need to be unleashed.

We will look back at 2003 as the beginning of the era when the Internet became truly untethered." [CISO] Reporting on Risk to the Board - A CISO's Approach Cell Phone Inventor Talks of First Cell Call 40 years ago today, April 3, 1973, the first cell phone call was made by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper. He called his competitor at Bell Labs to gloat at having beat them. It was 40 years ago today, April 3, 1973. Martin Cooper, then a senior engineer at Motorola, made a cell phone call — the first one ever. Cooper, now age 85, tells the story of this call in an interview with the BBC , embedded below. The call, in the presence of a journalist, was to his chief competitor, Dr. Joel S. Engel, who was head of Bell Labs: "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone." Yes, the first cell phone call was for the purpose of gloating. Cooper says that Engel tells him he doesn't remember the call.

In the interview Cooper discusses some of the benefits to mankind that came from ubiquitous mobile phones. He also says that Motorola treated him well (even though he got $1 from it for signing away the rights to all his inventions). He also criticized the mobile carriers for focusing on speed rather than reliability of coverage. "The emphasis of the carriers has been to market speed, and yet the technology exists today, and it's being adopted slowly ... that would give us really solid coverage and increase the capacity of the system." [Editors note: In retrospect, the first thing to say would be "Watson! Come quickly! I need you!"] handheld was invented by Martin Cooper the General - PROBLEM SO - GS1145 Handheld was invented by martin cooper the general SCHOOL View Full Document handheld, was invented by Martin Cooper, the General Manager (Communications Division) of Motorola, who made the world`s first handheld cell phone call on April 3, 1973 ( Sedycias, 2007 ,p. xx-xx ) First Handheld Phone. ( Borgobello, 2013 , p.

xx-xx ) To describe the Cell Phone you would have to start know what parts make up a Cell Phone without going into extreme exaggerated details a cellphone consists of a circuit board, antenna, microphone, speaker, battery, and can also come with optional components such as GPS, wireless internet and with today’s phones the ability to the phone by touching the screen. Believe it or not Cell Phones have impacted all areas of our everyday lives for the better and sometimes for the worst. One of the best impacts of the advancement of cellular technology is the fact that you have instant communication connections with anyone in the world and also at any time. This type of impact often goes unappreciated by the younger generations due to the fact that most of them don’t, simply because they have probably never had to use the Pager Payphone combination or they were born into this era of technological advancement. But the Idea of instant connectivity to anyone was once thought to be just a figment of imagination. That coupled with the many apps that open up new lines of communication that largely multiply networking opportunities. Another way Cell Phones have impacted today’s society is by the introduction of incorporating GPS.

The acronym GPS stands for Global Positioning System the definition is, A navigational system using satellite signals to fix the location of a radio receiver on or above the earth’s surface. The reason’s that this type of This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM ITT Tech Owings Mills PROBLEM SO GS1145 - Winter 2014 M 2 x C S J Autobiography a small company that was formed in a college class at ITT-T MJSCx2.pptx project !! Who Invented Mobile Phone? – TheOS.IN Who Invented Mobile Phone? A little history about modern mobile phone and its inventor Dr. Martin Cooper. We use mobile phone everyday. I own a blackberry and a Nokia phone. In the 90s the cellphone was a luxury item. I thought it would be an interesting idea to dig out a little history about mobile phone. Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first US analogue mobile phone call Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola is considered to be the inventor of the first practical mobile phone.

On April 3, 1973, Martin placed a call to rival Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T’s Bell Labs, while walking the streets of New York City talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype. In 1940s Motorola developed a backpacked two-way radio, the Walkie-Talkie and a large hand-held two-way radio for the US military. The same technology developed further and produced the mobile phone that we know today. In 1946 USSR (Russia) successfully tested their version of a radio mobile phone mounted inside a car. The modern handheld cell phone era began in 1973 when Motorola invented the first cellular portable telephone to be commercialised, known as Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. On October 13, 1983, the pilot commercial cellular system of Illinois Bell begins operating in Chicago. The second pilot system run by ARTS in partnership with Motorola begins operation in Baltimore/Washington on December 16, 1983.

By 1984, Washington, DC has two competing cellular providers, By 1988, many cellular systems (particularly New York and Los Angeles) are already becoming overloaded as the promise of nearly infinite expansion of capacity from cell splitting turns out to be more costly and difficult than foreseen. The Motorola StarTac was the first phone in the world with Vibrating alert function. It was unveiled in North America on January 3, 1996. StarTACs remained popular until the early 2000s. The Sharp J-SH04 was the industry’s first mobile phone to feature an integrated 110,000-pixel CMOS image sensor for taking digital photos (camera mobile phone). By 2003 or 2004 Blackberry begun to take the market by storm. The phone were optimized for wireless email communication. GPRS could provide data rates from 56 kbit/s up to 114 kbit/s. It can be used for services such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access, Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.

On January 9, 2007 Apple unveiled the iPhone to the public. WHERE WERE MOBILE PHONES FIRST USED? => United States of America (USA) These days we use second generation (2G) GSM / CDMA / TDMA mobile networks and phones. Many service providers now looking to create a third generation (3G) mobile network. The most significant feature offered by third generation mobile technologies is the capacity to support greater numbers of voice and data customers but as usual it is quite expensive to roll out. Now, a 4G system is expected to provide a comprehensive and secure all-IP based solution where facilities such as IP telephony, ultra-broadband Internet access, gaming services, and streamed multimedia may be provided to users. References: 40 years of the mobile phone: Top 20 facts | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express TECH 40 years of the mobile phone: Top 20 facts ON April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper made a call on this hefty, hand–held device and made history. Things have certainly changed a bit since then...

By Adrian Lee 07:43, Wed, Apr 3, 2013 Martin Cooper, the father of the cell phone, with the first cell phone he used 30 years ago The first mobile telephone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as "the father of the cellphone". From Sixth Avenue in New York he rang the boss of a rival manufacturer who was less than thrilled to discover that he had lost the race to develop a portable, hand–held device. Cooper later recalled: "There was silence at the other end of the line. I suspect he was grinding his teeth." The weight of the phone used to make that call was about the same as a bag of sugar (2lb). The brick–like battery required, which allowed a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to charge, made carting it around even more of a chore. A decade later in 1983 the first mobile phones went on sale in the US costing about £2,500 each. By 1990 there were a million users.

The first mobile phone call made in the UK was in 1985 when comedian Ernie Wise called from London to Vodafone's offices in Newbury, Berkshire. Mobile phones went on sale here two years later costing £1,200 each and became the must–have gadget of the yuppie. They entered popular culture when Del Boy was seen brandishing one in hit TV series Only Fools And Horses. Nine out of 10 adults in the UK now have a mobile phone. Voicemail was first added to mobile phones in 1986, followed 10 years later by the first laborious internet access from handsets. Long before the iPhone there was IBM Simon. Released in 1993 this bulky gadget was the first smartphone and had calendar, fax, touch screen and a host of other features – all for about £500. The bestselling single model is the Nokia 1100, made in Finland. More than 250million devices were snapped up, also making the phone the top–selling electrical gadget in history, ahead of the PlayStation 2.

The phones are still highly sought after on the second–hand market and sales boomed after a false rumour that a software glitch allowed fraudulent bank transactions to be carried out using the device. Mobile phone texting was first introduced 21 years ago. Neil Papworth, a 22–year–old software programmer from Reading, sent the first message when he wished his friend Richard Jarvis of Vodafone: "Merry Christmas." At the time mobile phones didn't have keyboards so it was sent via personal computer. The first photo to be shared using a mobile phone was taken in 1997 by Philippe Kahn. He sent snaps from the maternity ward where his daughter Sophie was born. Kahn, an inventor from France, is credited with developing the world's first camera phone. Celina Aarons, from Florida, is thought to hold the dubious honour of having racked up the highest ever mobile phone bill. She neglected to change her calling plan to an international one when the phone was used for two weeks in Canada. The result was a £142,000 bill, which was later reduced to £1,800 by the phone company. In the UK a mobile phone is stolen every three minutes.

The Metropolitan Police claim that such thefts account for one third such thefts account for one third of all street robberies in London. Inventors are working on the idea of keeping your sim card safe by inserting it into your forearm. The Sonim XP3300 Force is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the toughest phone. It survived after an 84ft drop on to a layer of concrete without suffering any operational damage. Drivers' reactions are a third slower when talking on a handheld mobile than when under the influence of alcohol. Fake trees and cacti, which are used to conceal mobile phone masts, have become an art form and featured in photographic exhibitions. Following complaints about the appearance of the 40,000 masts in the UK, companies have developed ingenious disguises. Next time you're out take a closer look at that chimney, clock, drainpipe or weather vane. The first cell phone to be used by James Bond was an Ericsson JB988 in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997. The handset contained various fictional extras such as a fingerprint scanner, lock pick, stun gun and remote control for 007's BMW car.

VITAL LINK: Today there are five billion handsets in circulation The most common use for a mobile is neither calling nor texting but checking the time. The world's most expensive mobile phone carries a £6.7million price tag. The height of luxury or vulgarity, depending on your point of view, it's a version of the iPhone. The device is made from solid gold, encrusted with 500 diamonds and comes in a platinum box. Phantom calls to the police are a big problem. Even if a phone is locked emergency calls can still be made accidentally. At one time UK police forces were receiving 11,000 phantom calls a day. In the US two men were caught breaking into a car after one accidentally dialled 911 and officers overheard everything. The most common use for a mobile is neither calling nor texting but checking the time. This has prompted concerns texting will bring about the death of the wristwatch. More than 180million iPhones have been sold to date. If you turn them sideways and line them up, they measure more than 12,700 miles.

Someone has bothered to work out that's long enough to build a bridge from Rio de Janeiro to Shanghai, go halfway around the world or circle Pluto almost three times. Modern devices can weigh less than 3oz and around the world there are now five billion mobile telephones. In the UK the volume of calls from mobile phones first exceeded the volume of calls from fixed phones in 2011. The mobile phone industry is the fastest–growing in the world. Latest videos Martin Cooper facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Martin Cooper COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc. Martin Cooper American engineer Martin Cooper (born 1928) is often dubbed the father of the mobile phone. In November of 1972, he and a team of associates at the Motorola Company began working on a prototype of the Dyna-Tac phone, and five months later Cooper stood on a Manhattan street and placed the world's first call from a mobile phone. “There were a lot of naysayers over the years,” Cooper admitted in an interview with Investor's Business Daily writer Patrick Seitz. “People would say, ‘Why are we spending all of this money?

Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?’ ” Cooper was born on December 26, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Arthur and Mary Cooper. He was a tinkerer from an early age, recalling in an interview with Seattle Times journalist Yukari Iwatani, “I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid …. I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.” He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950, and from there enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves, serving on destroyers and a submarine. His first job was with the Teletype Corporation of Chicago, which made the units that provided remote communications services to media outlets. Worked on New Police Radios Cooper joined Motorola, Inc., of Schaumburg, Illinois, in 1954, and earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology three years later in 1957. At Motorola, he was assigned to the division that was working on the first portable handheld police radios, which were introduced in Chicago in 1967.

By then he had advanced to the position of operations director, and over the next nine years he made his most significant contribution to the future of mobile communications while serving the company. Car-based mobile phones had been in limited use in large U.S. cities since the 1930s. By the early 1970s, they were used with a communications system called the Mobile Telephone Service, which carried signals over the same VHF (very high frequency) that FM radio stations used. Calls were placed not by dialing telephone numbers, but by locking onto specific channels. The system was unreliable and prone to congestion in urban areas, where it was impossible for more than 24 channels to operate on a given network. Moreover, the phones cost between $2,000 and $4,000 and had to be installed in an automobile because of the power source and antenna that were both required for use; waiting lists for an available account—which usually only came up when a subscriber chose to disconnect the service—could be as long as three years. Cooper believed that car phones were impractical from a deeper standpoint, however.

“Our basic dream was that people didn't want to talk to cars,” he told Iwatani, the Seattle Times writer. “They didn't want to talk to a desk or a wall (where phones were generally placed). They want to talk to other people.” Motorola's main competitor was Bell Laboratories, the research division of American Telephone & Telegraph Company (later known as AT&T). At the time, AT&T had a monopoly on traditional (so-called “landline”) telephone service in the United States, and was working on a new form of mobile communication that it could offer its subscribers. An important technological breakthrough came with the idea that the phone's signal would be carried over a geographical area, passing from transmitter to transmitter in individual “cells” of territory. “AT&T announced they had a solution called a cellular phone for personal communications,” Cooper explained about the battle between the two in an Electronic Design interview in 2003. “It had two attributes that were totally abhorrent to us: One that AT&T would operate a new cellular service as a monopoly; the other that the solution was car telephones.

We had to prove to the world that both of these attributes were not in the public interest.” The Dyna-Tac Motorola's legal team began working on a proposal to the Federal Communications Commission to win approval for private companies like itself to operate communications networks over radio frequencies, which would be a necessary step in entering the mobile-phone service market and prevent AT&T's continued monopoly. Motorola also needed to show the government agency that a working mobile phone was indeed feasible from a practical standpoint, despite AT&T's claims that car-based units were the future of communications. In November of 1972, Cooper and his team began working on a portable phone, and ran their first tests in Washington. The result was the Dyna-Tac, which the Motorola staffers dubbed “the shoe phone” for its design profile. It weighed 30 ounces, or nearly two pounds, and measured ten inches long, three inches deep, and oneand-a-half inches wide. The public demonstration for the world's first mobile phone came on April 3, 1973, in New York City. Cooper and engineers at Motorola installed the first cellular transmitter atop the Burlington Consolidated Tower (later renamed the Alliance Capital Building) on Sixth Avenue.

Prior to walking into a scheduled press conference at the New York Hilton, Cooper took out the Dyna-Tac prototype and pressed the off-hook button, which connected him to a base station. From there, he dialed into the landline system and, ignoring curious looks of passers-by, called his rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel, and “told him: ‘Joel, I'm calling you from a “real” cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone,’ ” Cooper recalled in an interview with BBC correspondent Maggie Shiels. Asked what Engel's response was years later, Cooper could not remember the exact words, but admitted to New York Times writer Ted Oehmke that Bell Labs was “a little bit annoyed. They thought it was impertinent for a company like Motorola to go after them.” The New York Times duly ran an article the next day, on April 4, with the headline “Motorola Introduces Wire-Less Telephone.” The reporter assigned to cover the Motorola press conference, Gene Smith, related that journalists were allowed to make calls from the phone, and predicted that the network would probably be ready for subscribers by 1976.

Monthly costs would be $60 to $100 a month, but could drop to $10 a month by the early 1990s, Smith reported. Of Cooper's device itself, the newspaper quoted him as saying that it “eliminates the phone cord. All information today goes on the wire, including dialing and hanging up the phone. Through the use of a few integrated circuits, chips, and devices, we are performing the functions of tens of thousands of parts in the normal phone system.” Became Vice President Cooper's Dyna-Tac appeared on the July 1973 cover of Popular Science magazine, and the technological breakthrough helped Motorola achieve its goal of winning FCC permission for private companies to operate a wireless communications network over radio frequencies. The achievement also boosted his profile within the company, and he was made a division manager at Motorola in 1977 and then vice president and corporate director for research and development a year later. In 1983, the same year that the first commercial cellular phone service began operation in the United States, Cooper left Motorola to found his own company, Cellular Business Systems, Inc.

This Chicago-area software company handled billing for cellular phone service providers, and was sold to Cincinnati Bell in 1986. In the earliest years of wireless communication phone service, Cooper and Motorola appeared to have lost their ideological battle with AT&T, as car phones dominated the market. Smaller, lightweight portable mobile phones did not make significant inroads with consumers until the early 1990s. He remained convinced of the practicality of his original concept, however. “A telephone number shouldn't represent a home or a car or a restaurant, but instead a person,” he explained to Peter Meade in America's Network in 1997. “That vision is not complete. That is why I'm still working.” He noted that avid users of mobile phones in Japan, for example, were canceling their residential landline phone service. “Why would anyone want any other phone but one with their own personal phone number? It's the dream of AT&T realized: When you're born, you are assigned a phone number—and if you don't answer, you're dead,” he told Meade.

Envisioned Wireless Internet By then Cooper had served as chair and chief executive officer of another company, Cellular Pay Phone Inc., and in 1992 signed on with Arraycomm Inc., in Del Mar, California, as chair and chief executive officer. The firm was founded by two other inventors and was working on wireless Internet applications, which Cooper saw as the next breakthrough in mobile communications services. “Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications,” he told Oehmke in the New York Times in 2000. “And just as people got used to taking phones with them everywhere, the way people use the Internet is ultimately going to be wireless. With our technology, you will be able to open your notebook anywhere and log on to the Internet at a very high speed with relatively low cost … when people get used to logging on anywhere, well, that's going to be a revolution.” Cooper is not a household name, but is well-known inside wireless technology circles. For years, he was often photographed with that Dyna-Tac prototype he had used to make the world's first mobile phone call back in 1973.

Often asked if he was surprised at the ubiquity of the device for which he was granted U.S. Patent No. US3906166 for a “Radio telephone system” on October 17, 1973, he conceded that seeing scores of mobile-phone callers on that same Manhattan sidewalk 30 years later might have indeed seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, noting that even “in 1983 those first phones cost $3,500, which is the equivalent of $7,000 today,” he told Shiels, the BBC correspondent. “But we did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even have it embedded under your skin.” He also admitted to a certain satisfaction that his original idea for a wireless telephone had caught on with the rest of the world. “Freedom is what cellular is all about,” he said in the same interview. “It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives because these phones do make people's lives better.

They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they make them feel safe and all of those things.” Cooper went on to win several more patents, and was still active in the wireless technology business in 2007. He had two children from his first marriage, and in 1991 he married Arlene Harris, a co-founder of Cellular Business Systems. An avid skier and fitness enthusiast, he claims to keep his mind active by completing New York Times crossword puzzles. He still gave press interviews—over a standard phone line, ironically—and admitted to Todd Wallack of the Houston Chronicle that “I am talking now on a land line. I get as frustrated as you do with wireless service. I get infuriated because I know what the technology is capable of.” Periodicals The Invention of the Cell Phone Research Paper - 387 Words The Important Invention of the Cell Phone Essay ...﻿Cell phones are one of the most important creations ever since the telephone itself. With the creation of the telephone we were able to communicate with other human beings all across the world thus allowing us to communicate valuable information to family, and friends. This invention also created various job opportunities to many people in the form of telemarketing.

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Martin Cooper is the person credited with both inventing the modern cell phone as well as making the first cell phone call in New York City, New York in April 1973. A related invention is the cave radio phone invented by Nathan Stubblefield who was awarded a patent for the idea in the early 20th Century (1908). Since his work does not provide the technology behind modern cell phones, he is not given credit for inventing the cell phone. History of the Telephone Alexander Graham Bell is given credit by historians with the invention of the traditional telephone in 1876. Less than three decades later, on December 23rd, 2000, Reginald Fessenden was able to make the world’s first wireless phone call. His invention used radio waves to transmit communication via voice between radio towers. His work provided the technical background later used in broadcast technology. It would also provide the conceptual basis for future network and mobile phone tower development. As the world emerged from WW2 , engineer William Rae Young (Bell Labs engineer that was part of AT&T), made the proposal of setting up radio towers in a hexagonal pattern to support a network of phones.

His work incorporated transmitters designed to transport calls to destinations on the network and included the idea of handoffs between towers based on the end-user’s location. Despite the concept being technically sound, it would take another 10+ years before additional advances in mobile phone technology to be realized. In order to address a growing demand by consumers for some type of mobile communication technology, there were a few companies in this timeframe that sold radio telephones. These early phones operated very similar to hand held radios but relied upon an installed network to operate. The network could only support a few simultaneous calls at a time. If the person making a call could not access the network, he or she would have to wait for someone to finish their call before making an attempt. The setup of the network reduced privacy to almost nil; however, and the phones were heavy coming in at 80 or more pounds. What Came before the Cell Phone? Before cell phones as we know them came into existence, “ Hexagonal Cells ,” were used by smaller numbers of consumers in the later portion of the 1950s. These early radio telephones were created by AT&T and Bell Labs.

They were primarily used by the rich and did not see widespread adoption due to their size and cost. Before the Hexagonal Cell was invented, radio telephones were the primary method to wirelessly communicate by government agencies, the military, and large businesses. The legacy radio phones required a backpack that would then transmit the phone call to a nearby base station. Today, the hexagonal cell phones are referred to with the relatively new label of “zero generation phone.” 1G Mobile Phones When Dr. Martin Cooper placed the world’s first cell phone call to Dr. Joel Engel on April 3rd, 1973, the technology used by the device became known as a 1G or first generation mobile phone. This first cell phone weighed approximately two pounds and was named the Motoroloa Dyna-Tac . When Dr. Cooper made the call, Dr. Engel was standing on the street near the Manhattan Hilton hotel while there were a fair number of media personnel and press nearby to observe the event. After making the call, the first cell phone patent was granted on October 17th, 1973. After Dr.

Cooper’s demonstration, there were be several companies who would develop cell phone networks and release cell phones of their own in the subsequent years. It would take several decades after Dr. Cooper’s demonstration; however, before there would be a significant decrease in the use of traditional land lines. 2G Mobile Phones Mobile phone technology would not see another significant leap in capability until the advent of 2G mobile phones. Some of the early second generation cell phone networks included IS-95, IDEN, and GSM. The early GSM networks started seeing significant use and deployment in 1991. 2G phone networks supported faster mobile phone to network connections and also included digital circuit switched transmissions that supported a higher quality of service for the end user. In addition to the improvements in technology, mobile phone companies were able to significantly reduce the physical size of the cell phone making it easier for customers to carry the phone with them. Second generation mobile phones took advantage of improvements in chip design to reduce the size of the phone(s). Chip manufacturers were able to produce smaller chips that had an increased capacity for installation of additional circuitry resulting in an overall smaller phone. Combined with an increase in mobile phone tower power output, there was a significant increase in overall capability of the devices.

2G phones were also the first to support SMS texting capability in the early-mid 1990s as well as ring tones. SMS Text History The concept of SMS texting arose in the 1980s when discussions on what services to support in the GSM mobile phone standard were underway. Many of the engineers and scientists working on the standard believed that a messaging system would be the best method to alert individual users for items such as incoming voicemail, etc. When work on the GSM standard started to get to the publication point in the mid-1980s, there were parallel discussions on creating a messaging standard. As a result, the IDEG (Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Expert Group) was formed in 1987 and was tasked with creating a standard for a messaging system for use on GSM. Just five years later at the end of 1992 (December), Neil Papworth would send the first commercial text message from a computer to Richard Jarvis’s Vodafone on the GSM network in the U.K. The first commercial message was “Merry Christmas.” Prior to this, Riku Pihkonen is credited with sending a text message in 1992 from a Nokia GSM phone.

After these first texts, most GSM phones would include SMS texting capability over the 1990s; however, it would take until 2000 for the popularity of the texting format to take off. This was primarily due to the incompatibility of SMS text across different mobile phone network carriers. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, SMS text would grow to be supported on most mobile networks to include TDMA and CDMA. The use continued to increase to the point of there being more than 1.5 trillion text messages sent by the end of 2009 in a given year. Today, mobile phone users are able to interchangeably use SMS, or MMS messaging that is capable of including file attachments, pictures, and even short video clips! 3G Mobile Phones Shortly after second generation mobile phones started to see widespread use, industry started to work on the third generation (3G) mobile phone standard. The 3G standard leverages wideband frequency carriers as well as a CDMA air interface . They are able to support much higher speed data applications with maximum speed ratings of two megabits.

The networks deployed or upgraded to support the 3G standard were designed to support wireless data rates of up to 144 kilobits per second. The first country to deploy a 3G network was Japan in May of 2001. The network would later see commercial launch by NTT DoCoMo in the fall of 2001 (October). By 2002, there were third generation mobile networks that leveraged CDMA2000 technology in South Korea. Due to the commercial success in Asia, third generation networks started to be launched in 2003 in Europe in Italy and Great Britain. In the United States, the first commercial 3G mobile network was deployed by Monet Mobile Networks but was eventually shut down. Verizon Wireless would launch the second 3G network in the U.S. in July of 2002 using CDMA2000 1x EVDO . Despite the significant improvements in speed and quality of service, the adoption rate of 3G technology world-wide was relatively slow.

Since these networks do not use the same frequencies that the more established (at the time) 2G networks leveraged, mobile network operators had to license new frequencies and deploy new network infrastructure to support 3G. By the end of 2007; however, there were 190 third generation cell phone networks in operation in 40 countries as well as 154 HSDPA networks in 71 countries across the world. One of the technology improvements which increased the popularity of 3G was the advent of the smartphone. Combining the capabilities of a PDA with a cell phone, the demand to be connected at much faster data rates not realized on 2G networks helped encourage mobile companies to continue to invest in the newer technology. LTE / 4G Mobile Phones The succeeding technology to third generation cell phones is the 4G mobile phone. Another common term used to refer to the succeeding generation of technology is Long Term Evolution. Although phones that implement LTE have demonstrable improvements over 3G phones, not all LTE devices comply with the full 4G standard. As a result, although they may be marketed as 4G devices, they likely do not provide the full spectrum of performance improvements guaranteed by the standard.

LTE supports a significant improvement in data download and upload speeds as well as other improved capabilities for mobile phones and devices. The majority of major mobile phone providers began providing support for LTE during 2009 . They have been making steady improvements to legacy third generation phone networks to support the newer technologies. One of the most fundamental differences between a 4G or LTE mobile phone and the older 2G/3G devices is that the newer phones are IP-based. Additionally, LTE phones are assigned their own IP address which help mobile phone networks provide an increase in overall capability for the devices. Additional improvements include a max upload speed of 50 Mbs, 100 Mbps download speed, a scalable carrier bandwidth, as well as handoff between 4G and legacy phone towers. What are the Advantages of 4G Cell Phones Over 3G Phones? The single biggest advantage of a 4G mobile phone over 3G technology is the vast improvement in network bandwidth and capacity. For example, on a 3G network a mobile user would likely require a WiFi connection in order to place a usable, clear video call via Skype or other equivalent technology.

On a 4G phone, the majority of mobile providers are able to support live video over the cell network. Additionally, 4G mobiles are able to include more “always on” services such as GPS, location services, etc. 4G also includes support for legacy 3G phones; however, the older mobiles are not able to realize the improvements in data down/upload speeds. Finally, the mobile phone architecture is cheaper to deploy and maintain on the part of the cell phone companies. Once the underlying switching system is changed out to support flat IP addressing, the overall cost of a 4G network is less than for that of legacy 3G or 2G. Why are LTE Phones Marketed as 4G? Based on lessons learned over the previous decades of cell phone technology adoption and consumer behavior, there has been a rush by mobile phone companies to gain market share for 4G mobile devices. Consequently, there has been an ensuing debate on what really qualifies a mobile phone or other device as being a true 4G device since LTE does not fully support the 4G standard.

Although all major providers are in progress of releasing true 4G networks, most have been guilty of marketing existing HSPA+ or 3G+ networks as 4G since the networks support many of the improvements promised by the 4G standard. The mobile phones for many carriers will actually display a “4G” network in these cases even though full network upgrades have not been completed. Many devices have actually stopped displaying the “4G” or “3G” indication to the end user in order to avoid continued debate on the matter at the time of this writing. What is the Current Status of 5G Mobile Phones? At the time of this writing, there has not been a fifth generation mobile phone standard developed. It is believed that when a 5G standard is developed, that it will be focused more on ensuring quality of service to the end user than on drastic improvements in speed. There will be some improvement in the speed area, but it is expected that this will be more due to improvements in hardware and other supporting technologies. The focus on quality of service is based on the expected increase in total number of connected devices in a home by the time the 5G standard is expected to be released and adopted.

Despite the absence of a 5G standard, Samsung publicly stated that the company had released the world’s first 5G phone on May 12th, 2013. The claims are made due to the increase in maximum speed of 1.056 Gbit/sec at a range of up two kilometers. Other related announcements for 5G include a major announcement by Israel and India in July of 2013 that the countries have agreed to work together on creating and adopting 5G technologies. Follow Us! Cell phone technology is based on radio technology that was developed from the 1940’s onward. ... hine AWESOME WEBSITE! I FRICKEN LOVE IT OMG OMG OMG SOOOOOO HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! harry yes i do spaz much rose I came with an invention for cell phones too. It can save lives of thousand of people who uses it. green Inventor of the Gamma-Electric Cell Aradin Oronde rity. The inventor of the Cellular phone is Henry Sampson, Jr. Sampson is an African-American from Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Morehouse and transferred to Purdue.

He received an MS in Engineering from the University of California. He was awarded an MS in Nuclear Engineering from Illinois and his Ph.D from Illinois. Sampson is the first African-American to receive a Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering. In 1971, Sampson was awarded a patent for the “gamma-electric cell.” This technology was used in the cellular phone. Hopefully, Dr. Sampson was well rewarded for his efforts. He holds the patent for his discovery #: 3,591,860. Check it out on Google. Pass this information on. (Barbershops and Beauty Salons are great places to discuss this info). During the week, let others know about Dr. Sampson. This is a “Breakdown the stereotype campaign.” Byron Perhaps Aradin, you can then explain why there is no reference to cell phones, radio phones or any phones for that matter in the patent you cite, nor is there any credible evidence that the gamma-electric cell is employed as a component of the cell phone infrastructure. Instead of posting the contents of Internet Email Rumors, your time might better be spent working to better the human race by actually contributing to society rather than detracting from it.

Observing Byron, The patent number given will give you the necessary proof you are asking for. There is a way to discuss and debate without being condescending. Keller Dr. Sampson is a brilliant man and inventor, but none of his inventions have anything to do with cell phones. All of his work has been in the field of nuclear engineering and includes the invention of a device called a “gamma-electrical cell.” This is NOT a cell phone. In this case, cell simply means “a small compartment.” Not every important invention has to do with a consumer product! Alaha Patera What is wrong with you playa??? dis be da moz amazzzin sight eva!!! thanks for da ‘a’ on ma english report, dawg! 😀 ezra thank for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ezra dis be da moz amazzzin sight eva!!! thanks for da ‘a’ on ma english report, dawg!

:D…guys anwser meh dr.MARTIN Copper workin on a nu model of cell phone “real tech” da world in ur hand 😉 roni who ia the mobile phone inventor lala thats real talk cuz that was some gud information bout who created cell phones cuz they are good things to use to contact people that are far away heh whos the author of this web page know it all where was cellphones invented? please help! George Al Gore invented the cellphone goodluck patrick guys i love u guys more than this get more advanced pls!!$ Danillo Fernandes Sorry american idiots read patent number 775.337 D.C but the first voice transmition in the world is brasilian … Roberto Landell de Moura …..

Fuck Americans hehehehe chad moore wow so this man made the phone, i mean h 1st phone i wonder how because you know what they say bout old ppl lol patrice by the way im missing some of my teeth so if i put my pic up smileing please dont say anything, i was punched & i stink lol Sumaiya soooooooooo much helpful……………thanks 2 them who made this.and I like 2 thank my frnd,,because of her I have visited this………. Jeff Thanks to the developers of this site. Kindly phase out some of the comments which are misleading. This is not where ill-thinking people should post nonsenses. Ariel Christina Marilyn Snow thx it was very useful!!! however, wouldn`t it be interesting if you write more pecificlly how back cell phones can trace? Shawn Charles E. Alden invented the cell phone in 1906. owen let the history inspire us to do more rajani hi, i want to no who invented cell phone Ajay Khule Hi Rajani, It is already mentioned in the article. Dr. Martin Cooper invented cell phone and was also know as the first person to make a call on a cell phone.

Refilwe Yeah dats very clever of you doc thanks for making cell phones for us Guest can i ask who’s the author of this article? Mushi shrooms My father Andrew Brian Johnson of Telstra created the first 2g network base station and when he died in October 2001 3G was released and they are trying to sweep this technical engineer who started in telecom and in 1992 made the first digital face to face video chat live on channel 9 news and a current affair Australia my family has never received royaltys and I found out my father was an inventor 3 days ago I can’t even aford pre paid credit for my Telstra phone Facebook my father just created page with patant that created 2g Search for:

Question: What everyday item was invented in 1973 by Martin Cooper?
Answer: Mobile phone